Word: flip-flopped
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...this treasured journalistic flip-flop may be harder to perform in November 1996, for two reasons. First, it has been weeks if not months since the media have been able to persuade either themselves or their audience that there was any real uncertainty about the election result--at least on the presidential level. And second, President Clinton's brilliantly successful re-election strategy of good times, bite-size issues (school uniforms) and soaring but empty imagery (bridges hither and yon) does not lend itself to grand historical theorizing or to bold claims about what the voters were trying...
Most journalists do not understand how clever these operatives are. For instance, reporters think it fiendishly clever to ask the flip-flop question. ("Sir, in 1986 you voted to permit the building of falafel stands in the Grand Canyon. Last year you opposed the bill. Isn't there a contradiction here?" Correct response: "Not at all, Ted. You're overlooking a key distinction...
...toward Dole stems from the senior senator's tendency to "flip-flop" on issues and on Dole's recent tiff with the national Log Cabin's Club, a group of gay Republicans in which Spampinato claims membership...
CALL IT THE FLIPPER FLIP-FLOP. A squabble over attempts to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act is forging some strange alliances even as it opens up a bitter rift in the environmental movement. In the end, it may be business interests--once the villains in the piece but now terrified of a boycott by dolphin-loving consumers--that decide the matter...
...till the end. But the story to watch right now is Dole's positioning and demeanor. Earlier this year, in an attempt to win the backing of far-right activists, Dole abandoned some moderate views on such hot-button issues as gun control and affirmative action. His rivals screamed "flip-flop," but his lead held steady. Since then, with an eye on a general election campaign against Bill Clinton, Dole has stood where he's really always been--in the conservative mainstream...